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VIDEO: Bird poisoning 'a shocking case'

3 hours 9 min ago
Norfolk gamekeeper Allen Lambert has been sentenced for what wildlife groups are calling the worst case of bird of prey poisoning recorded in England.
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VIDEO: Volunteers save beached NZ whales

Wed, 2014-11-05 03:59
Volunteers and residents in New Zealand manage to help free some pilot whales which had become beached in Ohiwa Harbour.
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VIDEO: The fake penguins aiding research

Tue, 2014-11-04 10:28
Using a remote-controlled vehicle disguised as a penguin helps researchers study shy emperor penguins up close.
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VIDEO: Why we should go wild for bees

Tue, 2014-11-04 00:49
Gardeners should use their lawnmowers less often to protect Britain's bees and other pollinating insects.
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VIDEO: Can a city roof be an insect haven?

Mon, 2014-11-03 21:51
Matt Shardlow from Buglife shows the BBC's Victoria Gill around a city rooftop that's been designed to attract bees.
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VIDEO: David Shukman: Who discovered Ebola?

Mon, 2014-11-03 18:12
When a blue thermos flask sent from Zaire arrived at a lab in Antwerp in September 1976, no one knew that the blood samples inside would contain the worlds first glimpse of Ebola.
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VIDEO: UK strawberries still grow in November

Mon, 2014-11-03 07:21
Ideal growing conditions means British fruit farmers are still harvesting strawberries into November.
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VIDEO: Where is England's Tree of the Year?

Mon, 2014-11-03 06:38
The Woodland Trust asks for votes to choose England's first Tree of the Year to compete in a Europe-wide contest.
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VIDEO: Slowing device 'deployed too early'

Mon, 2014-11-03 03:12
A safety device on the Virgin Galactic spacecraft that crashed on Friday deployed early during the fatal test flight, US investigators say.
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VIDEO: Fossil fuels 'must go by 2100' - IPCC

Sun, 2014-11-02 11:47
The unrestricted use of fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100, if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, a UN-backed expert panel says.
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VIDEO: Baby pandas wrestle with their keeper

Fri, 2014-10-31 05:23
A breeder in China's Chendgu province was trying to give these two baby pandas medicine instead of their usual bamboo leaves- and they were having none of it.
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VIDEO: Lab for world’s worst animal viruses

Thu, 2014-10-30 17:10
A look around a new lab at Pirbright Institute in Surrey, where the world’s most contagious livestock viruses will be kept.
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VIDEO: Russia's 39,000-year-old mammoth

Wed, 2014-10-29 08:05
A 39,000 year-old baby mammoth named Yuka has been put in display in central Moscow making it the best preserved mammoth in palaeontology.
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VIDEO: 1000C lava reaches homes in Hawaii

Tue, 2014-10-28 16:53
A lava flow from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is now drawing close to homes.
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VIDEO: Moment unmanned rocket explodes

Tue, 2014-10-28 16:44
An unmanned cargo rocket has exploded seconds after lifting off from a commercial launch pad in Virginia.
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VIDEO: App aims to identify bird songs

Tue, 2014-10-28 08:46
A mobile phone app that recognises which species of bird is singing is being developed by a researcher at Queen Mary University in London.
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VIDEO: New supercomputer for Met Office

Tue, 2014-10-28 01:13
Funding has been confirmed for a £97m supercomputer to improve the Met Office's weather forecasting and climate modelling.
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VIDEO: Wild flowers targeted by thieves

Tue, 2014-10-28 00:53
Conservationists are warning that some of Britain's endangered plants are being put under even greater threat, because thieves are stealing them to order.
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VIDEO: Two by two? How to move 1,700 animals

Sun, 2014-10-26 03:54
Wetheriggs Animal Rescue Centre in Cumbria move their 1700 animals to a new home County Durham.
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VIDEO: Record skydive from edge of space

Fri, 2014-10-24 23:36
Google executive Alan Eustace has broken the world altitude record for a parachute jump by leaping from 135,890 feet (41,419 metres) beating Felix Baumgartner's record.
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